Philly Expatriate

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Return

My daughter and had to run an early-morning errand. Upon our return home we were thrilled to find a female hairy woodpecker at our suet feeder. The woodpeckers, which had been such frequent visitors, seemed to disappear over the summer. I suppose they have returned back form their "summer home" to overwinter agian in our backyard.

Posted at 11:24 am by brandy101

	Posted by scott @ 10/04/2005 04:10 AM PDT
	You say 'hairy woodpecker' like it is a good thing. I would try and chase it the heck out of my garden!

	Posted by Giggles @ 10/03/2005 02:50 PM PDT
	I've only ever seen one woodpecker in my life...many, many moons ago.

	Posted by AbbyNormal @ 10/03/2005 01:49 PM PDT
	ACK! You've reminded me again that I need to get some decent bird feeders up for winter! We used to have a neighborhood woodpecker that would peck away consistently at a metal streetlight. I don't think he was right in the head, but he was pretty and it made a pretty cool noise!

	Posted by Lyly @ 10/02/2005 04:13 PM PDT
	When I was growing up we had a family of robins and one of cardinals that would spend the winter and spring in our backyard. Their cycles were comforting, now that I think about it.

	Posted by chrysalis @ 09/30/2005 09:40 AM PDT
	That is such a treat! Enjoy. Woodpeckers used to wake us in in the fall when we lived in Jackson. I so very much enjoyed waking up that way. Now that we're deep inside a 4.5 million resident metro area, they don't come 'round any more. I miss them.

	Posted by Michelle @ 09/29/2005 11:07 PM PDT
	"thrilled to find a female hairy woodpecker " OMG you are scaring me. shakes head Seriously woodpeckers are cool but thrilled? Man I gotta get you out some. LOL.

	Posted by blueskelton @ 09/29/2005 09:56 PM PDT
	i havent seen a woodpecker in quite some time

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